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William Paston

Male Abt 1479 - 1554  (~ 75 years)


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  • Name William Paston  [1
    Birth Abt 1479  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 20 Sep 1554  Paston, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Burial 26 Sep 1554  St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I21124  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2021 

    Father John Paston,   b. 1444   d. 28 Aug 1504 (Age 60 years) 
    Mother Margery Brewse,   b. Abt 1457   d. Abt 1495 (Age ~ 38 years) 
    Marriage Jul 1477  [3, 4, 5
    Family ID F13043  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bridget Heydon,   b. Abt 1480   d. Bef 17 Jan 1554 (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Children 
     1. Anne Paston   d. Bef 1533
    +2. Erasmus Paston,   b. Bef 1508   d. Bef 6 Nov 1540 (Age < 32 years)
     3. Clement Paston,   b. Bef 1523   d. 18 Feb 1598, Oxnead, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 75 years)
    Family ID F13041  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

  • Notes 
    • "His [Sir John Paston's] financial embarrassment was doubtless eased by the marriage of his son and heir, William, to Sir Henry Heydon's daughter Bridget, whose marriage portion was probably 500 marks. The wedding was already in sight when Sir Henry informed John Paston of the conclusion of the dispute with William Paston: 'How yee and myn ladie, and in what sylk or clooth yee will have these tweyn yong innocentes maried jnne, iff it shuld be purveyed at London to send me word, or ellys at Norwich, as it shall please you and myn ladie ther-affter I shall applie me; for it must bee ordyrd be you in the yong husbondes name.' 1489 seems the year in which to place the end of the controversy and the marriage, as on 10 February 1489 Margery, in writing to John, refers to 'my brodyre Heydon.'" [Colin Richmond,The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase (1990), quoted by Brad Verity, citation details below.]

  • Sources 
    1. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    2. [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.

    3. [S2166] Brad Verity, Edward I Descents for Erasmus Paston. 11 Nov 2015.

    4. [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983., year only.

    5. [S7425] Michael Andrews-Reading and Rosie Bevan, "A Proposed Reworking of the Debenham Pedigree." Foundations 16:1, 2023., year only.